This Cat Takes Selfies And They’re Better Than Yours
Cats rule the internet, or so the saying goes. Something about their cuddly fur and cute poses seems to tap inside all of us. We just can’t seem to help ourselves when it comes to cat content.
But these creatures are always the object of focus, living innocently, as we capture them in ways sometimes unflattering and in manners they potentially don’t find flattering. Until now. Meet Selfie Cat, real name Manny. This animal loves talking selfies, or more accurately, touching GoPro cameras.
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Manny learned to snap selfies accidentally one day. According to Instagram user @yoremahm, Manny reached out to fondle the camera and fell in love like so many teens around the world.
“He is a stray, that is very intelligent, thinks he’s a dog, follows us on walks, and is very, very friendly to humans,” Yorem told Bored Panda.
Here are a few of our favorites.
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5 International Food Destinations Based On Your Personality Type
People used to center their vacations around the best beach or historical landmark. Now more travel enthusiasts plan vacations for their stomachs. Here’s a list of the top five food destinations based on your personality type.
1. For food lovers who crave honest, non-pretentious food (take that foam and stick it up you’re a** ) and devoted pescatarians, the Galicia region is your spirit animal.
Basque country and Barcelona’s Catalan cuisine often get the spotlight, but many Spain-o-philes agree this green and lush Northwest part of Spain is the real gastronomic heavy hitter. Situated on a rugged coastline in the Iberian Peninsula, this food gem region is flush with delicious sea creatures such as cockles, crab, gooseneck barnacles, shrimp, mussels, octopus, and razor clams that are proudly and easily attainable at casual tapas spots. Like all tapas, they are best paired with wine. In this case, with the highly regarded Albariño wine that originates from Galicia.
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Galician specialties include Pulpo a la Feira, (tender octopus cooked with salt and paprika), lubrigante (Galician lobster that resembles the texture of shrimp but tastes like lobster), rice pudding, and since this is the cow capital of Spain, the beef and dairy are spectacular too. Cows in this region only eat grass and are free range. Travelers often discover this region on the famous and historic Camino trek, an intricate network of trails originating from Portugal, Spain and France and ending in the most traveled part of Galicia, Santiago. Tip: If you’ve got cheeky humor and appreciation for the irreverent, try the tit cheese. This is for realz. Spaniards named a cheese after a woman’s breast. The name tetilla is Galician for small breast. Rua de Franco is the food street in Santiago. My favorite tapas spot is A Taberna do Obispo.
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2. Sure, you want your food to taste good but more importantly, you’re all about novelty. For bragging rights that you hit up a remote location for dinner it’s a tie between two secluded spots in Denmark: Faroe Islands, Bornholm.
Normally, places that make the NY Times’ Best places to visit see a flood of tourists. Not so when it comes to the Faroe Islands, rated as the #9 place to visit in 2015, due to its remote location. This self-governing archipelago is technically part of Denmark, but geographically closer to London and culturally more similar to Iceland and Norway. The biggest draws are storybook settings of magical, lush, end of the world landscapes, trying Faroese cuisine and drinking straight out of waterfalls. Yep, it’s a thing. A Faroese local said, “What? Not everyone drinks directly from streams and waterfalls?” Tip: KOKS is the food seeker’s destination, specializing in traditional Faroese cooking techniques and ingredients that are unique to this region such as Faroese cod and langostine.
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When telling a local from Copenhagen that you’re planning on visiting Bornholm, you definitely score some points from them. Many Danes remember spending summers growing up at family cottages in this island boasting chalk cliffs, white beaches and an array of farmland way out in the Baltic Sea and about 200 km from Copenhagen. To get there from Copenhagen, you have to cross through Sweden and hop on a ferry to reach this island that’s off the south coast of Sweden.
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It’s the sunniest part of Denmark and is known for medieval ruins, smokehouses, artisans and produce that supplies the high-end restaurants in Copenhagen. It has a small-town feel where you ride bikes and pick up potatoes or homemade jam in honesty jars. Tip: Michelin-starred restaurant Kadeau is located on the beach where the staff encourages you to walk the ground with the neighboring beach and forest. You’ll actually find elements of your dinner on your plate.
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3. Dare to be different and meet our new political overloads: Moscow.
The capital of Russia hasn’t traditionally been on the top of anybody’s food list. That recently changed White Rabbit put Moscow on the dining scene when it made the top 20 list of the world’s 50 best restaurants. Youthful chef Vladimir Mukhin maintains a fine balance between staying true to local Russian ingredients while also innovating. Big hits include rabbit and mini cabbage rolls in foie gras with potato crisps and truffle juice.
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4. Street food, bugs and not-your-everyday meat parts over fancy white tablecloth any day: Mexico City.
Netflix’s Chef’s Table made it known that Mexico City could also be a food destination for people seeking an upscale experience (and dying to try the 1 million day mole…ok, maybe it’s not that old but last I checked, it was going on day 700) at Pujol. But the District Federale’s lifeblood is the street food scene, casual taquerias and market stands where you’ll find ladies making 20 varieties of mole, spicy intestine stew great for a hangover (noted by the long line on a Saturday or Sunday morning), taco stands and tortas galore. Bill Esperanza, founder of Tengo Hombre explains, “We Chilangos are torta phenes. We’ll stuff a sandwich with anything: torta de chilaquile, torta canasta, torta flauta, the list goes on. You can even get carb on carb action, a torta de tamal, where they take a torta and stuff it with a tamale. The torta de tamal offers a jelly belly variety of flavors ranging from pork with green salso to chicken roja. Tip: Al pastor taco fans, head to El Visito, operating as an auto repair shop by day and a taqueria emporium by night, is widely heralded as THE place to munch on these pork tacos.
Fond of an infinite taco bar, Tacos Chupacabras, named after Mexico’s mythical ‘goat sucker,’ is revered for their mixed meat tacos and massive condiments bar stocked with toppings such as potatoes, nopales and salsa. Follow your fellow taco-loving compatriots as they head to this taco joint that’s located under a highway overpass that is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The Chup resides in the Coyoacan neighborhood, the famous burrough where Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera lived and Leon Trotsky.
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5. Creative, fun, fresh, new while working on your tan: Los Angeles
Los Angeles has long been a stomping ground for food lovers due to its sheer ethnic diversity: San Gabriel valley for Chinese, the real deal taco trucks, Israeli cuisine, the list goes on. An influx of chefs and creatives moving out West in the past few years has further catapulted LA into a food mecca. New York chefs are moving West for cheaper rent and year-round access to unbeatable produce and Angelinos are loving it. The creative culture cultivates a welcome environment for food experimentation. Chefs Sara Kramer and Sarah Hymansomn (Sara squared), moved out West to open Mad Capra, a ragingly popular falafel shop housed inside the historic Grand Central Market. High-class dining on a more approachable level is their genre. Their new sit-down restaurant in the Los Feliz was one of the most anticipated restaurant openings in months. Kismet is not far from one of the most instagrammable restaurants, Sqirl (jam on toast anyone?) in the hipster haven Silverlake neighborhood.
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Medical Marijuana Can Help NFL Tackle Opioid Crisis
The following is an excerpt from the report “Mile High Potential: NFL Veterans Tackle America’s Opioid Crisis,” written by Richard A. Kimball Jr. and David W. Johnson
Professional football has long since surpassed baseball as America’s most popular sport. The NFL’s Super Bowl is a national party. Super Bowls represent 19 of America’s 20 most-watched TV broadcasts. Medical marijuana can help NFL tackle opioid crisis.
NFL football is high-octane competition characterized by strategy, grace, speed, willpower and brutal violence. To perform at peak levels, pro athletes must study and practice intensely while building and maintaining their finely-tuned bodies.
To stay on the field, most players also manage chronic pain by relying on opioid-based painkillers, antiinflammatories and other drugs prescribed by team physicians. Going further, many players risk fines and suspensions by consuming banned drugs to enhance performance and/or manage pain. These including Adderall, anabolic steroids and marijuana.
The NFL strictly monitors and punishes the use of banned drugs. Repeat offenders receive incrementally severe suspensions. Getting caught derails careers.
Penalizing the use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) makes sense. It literally levels the playing field. By contrast, the NFL penalizes marijuana use by players for legal and political reasons, not to maintain competitive balance.
The NFL’s anti-marijuana stances has become problematic. Former players argue that marijuana helped them avoid prescription opioids by managing their chronic pain, inflammation and neurological disorders.
The NFL’s over-reliance on opioid painkillers and its prohibition against medical marijuana mirrors mainstream medical opinion. American society is moving past the medical establishment and the NFL. It’s time for more enlightened thinking.
Playing On Drugs
Eugene Monroe was a gifted offensive lineman for the Jacksonville Jaguars and Baltimore Ravens. Monroe trained intensely, ate well and avoided drugs. His hard work paid off. Monroe was the 8th overall pick in the 2009 NFL draft.
Professional football is a physically-demanding, injury-prone occupation. Team doctors prescribed Monroe opioids (OxyContin and Vicodin), anti-inflammatories (Toradol and Celebrex), sleep aids (Ambien) and other drugs to treat his pain and prime him for competition.
“I was given pills before practice and training, and before, during, and after games. It was beginning to affect my body, my gastrointestinal system and my personality,” Monroe said.
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As the wear-and-tear accumulated, Monroe was in constant pain and took multiple drugs to avoid losing playing time, Monroe blacked-out driving home from a game as opioids kicked in. He saw former players suffer and sometimes die from opioid addiction. He wanted opioids out of his life. Monroe began experimenting quietly with cannabis as a pain relief substitute. Its healing properties amazed him.
In a March 9, 2016 CNN interview, Monroe became the first active player to publicly question the NFL’s reliance on prescription opioids and its anti-cannabis policy. He challenged the NFL to study the efficacy of medical marijuana. Monroe’s team, the Baltimore Ravens, released him last June and he subsequently retired.
Monroe has since become an outspoken advocate for radical changes to the NFL’s policies on marijuana use. He personally funds medical marijuana research and invests in early-stage medical marijuana companies. He still trains intensely but relies on medical marijuana to manage his pain and joint inflammation. “Now, I don’t take any pharmaceuticals at all,” he says.
Like Monroe, other former NFL players are expressing their concerns regarding prescription opioids and their positive experiences with medical marijuana. Monroe’s Jacksonville teammate, Eben Britton, received heavy doses of opioids from team physicians to treat his injuries and chronic pain.
Britton believes in holistic medicine and has a strong aversion to pharmaceuticals.
“I didn’t like the side-effects of opioids. They made me feel crazy and irritable. They drove up my heart rate and made it difficult for me to sleep. So, I gravitated to cannabis. It relieved my physical pain and stress and helped me sleep and even lessened the anxiety of being on injured reserve and away from the team,” Britton said.
As a player, the stigma and consequences of getting caught made Britton anxious. In retirement, he trumpets the benefits of medicinal marijuana.
“I love the game and I recognize that pain is part of it. If the NFL is concerned about players getting high [on marijuana], the reality is they’re already high on opioids. The league has the opportunity to be innovators in sports medicine and to have a positive impact on players’ health by looking more closely at medical marijuana.”
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Fortunately, medical marijuana has widespread public support. Like other consensus social movements (i.e. gay marriage) that overcame entrenched political beliefs, the body politic will overwhelm institutional interests opposing medical marijuana. As Bob Dylan sang, “It doesn’t take a weathervane to see which way the wind blows.”
This bring us back to the NFL. After fighting the medical evidence that concussions caused severe brain damage, the League pivoted and now leads efforts to diagnose, treat and prevent concussions. Brave players taking a stand catalyzed this change and the country is better for it.
The NFL is waiting for the medical establishment to conduct medical marijuana research and approve its use. It’s time for the NFL to play offense. Rather than sit on the sidelines, the league could fund research and promote the appropriate use of medical marijuana. This would be a smart political and policy strategy. It would also address player health concerns, appeal to a younger demographic and place the league on the right side of history.
Colorado was the first state to legalize recreational marijuana. An analysis by the Marijuana Policy Group found the marijuana industry created over 18,000 new jobs in Colorado and contributed $2.4 billion to the state’s economy.
Ironically, the naming rights for the NFL’s Denver Broncos “Mile High” Stadium are up for bid. Among the interested parties are two of Colorado’s largest marijuana distributors.20 This is harmonic convergence of the highest order. Somewhere in America, Eugene Monroe, Eben Britton and other NFL veterans are smiling.
David Johnson is the CEO of 4sight Health, a boutique healthcare advisory firm. Rick Kimball is a Partner of The Costera Group, an investment company. Having spent 30 years at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Millennium Technology Ventures.
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Inside The Game of Thrones Bar
One of the finer aspects of George R.R. Martin’s Game Of Thrones’ A Song of Ice and Fire series is how fully imagined the world is. With five novels, various supplemental works, and the most popular TV series running on the planet, it’s easy for any fan to lose themselves in the world Martin has created.
With few exceptions, however, that’s mostly existed in the imagination. Fans could tap into their minds to experience Martin’s world, but they couldn’t see the plains and taste the spirits. That is, until now.
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An Edinburgh bar has teamed with The Pop Up Geeks to create Blood & Wine, a Game of Thrones bar opened every Wednesday and Thursday through February.
From the arid deserts of Dorne to the snowy peaks of the north, a huge amount of alcohol is required to help peasants and lords alike through the woes of life in Westeros.
Our Maesters have sifted through scrolls, trawled through parchments and painstakingly sampled the many wines, ales, spirits and infusions found within the pages of George R.R Martin’s epic ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ series to source only the finest that the Seven Kingdoms have to offer.
From photos, the specificity of details leaves no stone unturned. The bar includes house sigils like House Stark, broadswords, “Frey Pies,” Dornish wines, a Wanted Poster for The Hound, “Sansa’s Lemon Pies” and more. They also feature Icelandic Mountain Vodka made by Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, the actor who plays Ser Gregor Clegane, a.ka. The Mountain.
Blood & Wine isn’t associated with either Martin or the HBO series, but instead inspired by the world depicted from the media. According to DRAM Scotland, The Pop Up Geeks have plans to produce more pop culture-themed bars in the Edinburgh area with themes from Harry Potter, The Walking Dead, and Stranger Things to come.
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A First: College In San Fran Offers Marijuana Curriculum
Just a little over two months after California legalized the adult recreational of marijuana, City College of San Francisco announced plans to add a cannabis curriculum.
The notoriously progressive city’s two-year community college will take the rest of this year designing the educational program that will officially offered to students in the 2018 spring semester.
“Obviously, with the potential growth of this industry being substantial, particularly in California, we want to offer access to this growing industry,” said Jeff Hamilton, a spokesperson for the college.
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In November, California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 64, legalizing cannabis recreationally. The state has had a medical marijuana program in place since 1996 when it passed the Compassionate Use Act.
CCSF is developing the program in conjunction with Oaksterdam University—a ground-breaking marijuana trade school located across the bay in Oakland —and the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union.
Oaksterdam is a revolutionary institution that has educated nearly 30,000 students in its nine-year history. UFCW was an early adopter of representing labor rights in the marijuana markets.
In 2016, the college struck a deal to partner with UFCW to create a de facto apprenticeship program in the school’s Pharmacology Technology department.
Oaksterdam and the labor union are not totally on the same page as to how the program will work, who will be eligible and what will be taught.
Dale Sky Jones, Oaksterdam University’s executive chancellor, told the San Francisco Examiner that “there are things that need to be sussed out, including who the training is for.” Jones wants to ensure that the classes are not restricted to members of the labor union. “I just want to make sure the training is available for as much people as possible,” Jones said.
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According to Hamilton, the college spokesperson, the course, as currently designed, is not an open-enrollment option. Instead, students would be sponsored as apprentices by the UFCW.
“The UFCW represents thousands of medical cannabis workers in six states and the District of Columbia,” according to the union’s website. The union currently represents 1.3 million members nationally, with most of its workers in the grocery, pharmacy and retail business.
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TFT Asks: Could The Future Of Music Be Vinyl Records?
As the music industry focuses on the streaming revolution and all the new avenues fans can consume their music, an older audio format has been on the rise: vinyl. For the first time in 25 years more than 3 million LPs were sold in 2016, according to the British Phonographic Industry.
This is the ninth consecutive year that vinyl sales have grown, including a 44% increase from 2015 to 2016. There was even one week in December where more money was spent on vinyl records in the UK than in digital sales, though some of that was possibly attributed to extra Christmas spending.
According to UK accounting firm Deloitte, vinyl could soon become a $1 billion industry. The firm predicts that vinyl sales could produce $800M to $900M in 2016 alone.
“Vinyl should account for almost a fifth of the sales of physical music products in 2017 and around 7 per cent of the $15bn that the global music industry is expected to take,” [Deloitte] claims.
However, there are some important caveats to note. As many have noted, we witnessed an unfortunate amount of major celebrity deaths in 2016, including musical icons like David Bowie, Prince, Leonard Cohen, Phife Dawg, and Glenn Frey. Prince was famously cantankerous when it came to the rights of his catalogue—the only major streaming service where you can access his records is Tidal.
A major catalyst in vinyl’s revival last year was Bowie, whose 2016 record Blackstar was the highest-selling LP for the year, moving 54,000 units since January. Bowie appears a total of five times in the top 40 for 2016 vinyl sales, for his records The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust (No. 12), Hunky Dory (No. 17), Nothing Has Changed—The Very Best of (No. 25), and Changesonebowie (No. 28). Prince also made an appearance in the top 10 for Purple Rain (No. 9).
Though some recent releases like Radiohead’s A Moon Shaped Pool, Adele’s 25, The Arctic Monkeys’ AM, and The 1975’s I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It appear in the Top 40, the bulk of vinyl sales were of re-releases or classic records from well-known artists, like Fleetwood Mac’s Rumors.
“In 1981, over 1 billion albums were sold. In 2017 it will be around 40 million,” Paul Lee, head of technology, media and telecoms research at Deloitte told The Financial Times. “This is not the resurgence that is portrayed. It is a blip.”
But could vinyl become music’s future for those seeking physical copies of their favorite artists? Also important to note: Is there a lack of available product for fans who would’ve purchased LP copies of their favorite 2016 records? Frank Ocean only sold the Blonde LP for 24 hours on Black Friday, while Kanye West never officially released any physical version of The Life of Pablo, leading to bootleggers producing their own copies, to cite two examples.
One thing is certain for now: Vinyl is very much alive in 2017.
Netflix Makes Games Now? Meet Flixarcade, Your New Obsession
Netflix is no stranger to coming up with clever ways to advertise their shows, doing stuff that ranges from developing an amazing presence on social media to creating websites that pass for real law enforcement offices and phone numbers that have answering machines. The company sure knows how to keep their viewers engaged while simultaneously providing content that people are desperate to consume.
Their latest advertising adventure is the development of a simple side scroller browser game that models the looks of the eight-bit video games of the ’90s. Flixarcade is a website where you can play as the main character from four different Netflix shows.
The gameplay is simple, consisting of only the space bar as a means to make your character jump, but the games are complex in their looks, varying from one another due to their design and their music, which are the main themes of each show with an 8-bit twist.
Stranger Things
Here you play as Mike, who’s running through the fictional town of Hawkins. Your main objective is to jump up and catch the Eggos, all the while avoiding the scientists and demogorgons.
Orange is the New Black
Piper runs through prison trying to catch chickens while you listen to Regina Spector’s “You’ve Got Time” on a loop. Why aren’t you playing this right now?
Marco Polo
The choice to make a Marco Polo game is a puzzling one, considering the fact that the show might be Netflix biggest critical flop. You play as the main character. We assume he is Marco Polo?
You can play all the different games here.
Kenny G Has Some Hilarious Dad Humor For You On Twitter
Often times, a celebrity has been part of the public consciousness so long you sort of forget they exist. For older celebrities, it evolves in either a) appearing on C-level reality TV shows to force themselves back into pop culture or b) they stay within their self-created fiefdom.
The latter seemed to be the way of Kenny G, the most well-known saxophone player in the past 25 years or so. But then we learned that Kenny G can be pretty damn funny on Twitter.
My hands are for one thing only: playing sax pic.twitter.com/ncuJJUBBAg
— Kenny G (@kennyg) November 26, 2016
Many celebrated this popular tweet, it likely appearing in your feed at some time or another. But many more are missing out on how routinely comedic Kenny G can be now that he’s embraced his lighter side.
I don't mean to toot my own horn but…it's what I love to do!! 🎷 pic.twitter.com/6NTBgFZOy5
— Kenny G (@kennyg) January 13, 2017
I keep it G in the streets. pic.twitter.com/L7pBktJh9N
— Kenny G (@kennyg) December 27, 2016
Even when it's cold outside, always stay saxy 🎷 pic.twitter.com/TTpv7olI0Y
— Kenny G (@kennyg) December 20, 2016
Sometimes you just need some morning sax pic.twitter.com/P8WImgt2bU
— Kenny G (@kennyg) December 18, 2016
This is about the furthest away I ever get from my saxophone pic.twitter.com/0AC7fy8RSQ
— Kenny G (@kennyg) December 5, 2016
Is it kind of corny dad humor? Sure! If you were in high school band, you probably heard (or made) some of these jokes. But you’d be lying if Kenny G’s tweets didn’t at least produce a chuckle. And who doesn’t need some of those nowadays?
Why This Traditional Brokerage Firm Is Betting Big On Cannabis
New York-based Cowen & Co. has built a reputation over its 99-year existence as a solid, reputable investment bank. You know, mergers & acquisitions, equity financing, debt strategies and the like. So what is this staid institution doing in the marijuana business?
Like all smart investment houses, Cowen & Co. is searching for industries that are poised for dynamic short-term growth with strong long-term sustainability. Vivien Azer, Cowen’s lead beverage, tobacco & cannabis analyst, looks at the nascent cannabis market and believes in its future.
On Thursday, Azer hosted a special one-day summit to explore with other investment outfits the growing cannabis industry. This is the first time a legitimate Wall Street banking institution sponsored a cannabis investment event.
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The “Cannabis Colloquium” conference was attended by more than 150 investors — including representatives from Blackstone, Fidelity and Janus Capital — all big players on Wall Street.
According to Azer, the explosive growth of cannabis is putting long-established beer, wine, spirits and tobacco industries at some risk. Ignore this market at your own peril, she warns.
“Even though there is not a ton of investable assets in cannabis, per se, I do cover Molson Coors and Constellation Brands and Brown-Forman and those are names that institutional investors really care about,” she told Bloomberg.
Azer. who is the first senior Wall Street analyst to cover the cannabis sector, says the SEC regulator filings of Brown-Forman Corp. and Boston Beer Co. state that the cannabis industry is a potential risk factor for their growth. And as Azer’s told Bloomberg, her research suggests that the concern is warranted: Beer isn’t selling as well in states where recreational pot is legal.
And it’s not just the United States market that is drawing interest from institutional investors; there is a lot of attention being focused north of the border.
Earlier this week, Cowen released “O Cannabis!: Initiating Coverage of Canadian Cannabis,” a 23-page report examining the “first major developed market to legalize cannabis for adult use nationally.” Azer anticipates the Canadian market could generate $8 billion in sales revenue by 2021.
The U.S. market is enjoying explosive growth — eight states now have legalized recreational use and another 29 have medical marijuana programs. Cannabis sales are expected to skyrocket from $6 billion in 2016 to $50 billion by 2026, according to Cowen’s 110-page report, which included analysis from 10 senior researchers.
Analysts forecast more than 25 percent compound annual growth in the next five years. As a comparison, this explosive industry growth curve mimics that of the cable TV business in the 1990s, which enjoyed a 19 percent annual growth and the broadband internet industry of the 2000s (29 percent).
There is concern that a Trump administration will throw cold water on the red-hot sector.
“We wonder if this is a fight the Trump administration wants to pick considering support for medical [marijuana] was higher than the president-elect,” Azer told Barron’s. “Our guess is ‘no.’ ”
Cowen is putting its own money where its mouth it. The firm’s investment-banking division advised Canopy Growth Corp., a Canadian medical marijuana company that last month raised $60 million in funding.
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